CONVERSION OF DUAL FUEL NOZZLES TO GAS FUEL ONLY

Operators can assure trouble free operation with Fern Engineerings fuel nozzle modification.
Our thirty-plus years of experience with design modifications, fuel nozzle reconditioning, and
calibration ensures a safe and trouble free conversion. We also pressure check and calibrate
the final product. Fern Engineerings modification design converts General Electric heavy
industrial dual fuel nozzle assemblies to single fuel without the commonly associated problems.
The Fern Engineering design features a nozzle cap plug that is seal-welded to the nozzle body.
The specially-designed nozzle cap replaces the existing outer tip and liquid fuel transition piece.
It also replicates a crucial bearing surface of the outer tip that acts as an axial stop to correctly
position the nozzle swirl tip. If required, the dual fuel capability can be easily restored by
grinding the relatively light seal weld.
Seal welding the replacement cap eliminates any potential leak paths or accumulating pockets
for the gas fuel, thereby providing the safest configuration. Other designs utilizing transition
piece plugs are prone to reverse flow through the nozzles due to potential leakage paths.
Reverse flow causes nozzle carbonizing or plugging and can eventually lead to burning and
severe nozzle component damage.
Fern Engineering has modified several nozzle assemblies with this design and all have been
operating trouble-free since being converted.



Typical heavy frame gas turbine combustion fuel nozzle assembly before
conversion and refurbishment. For conversion, cap plug is seal welded to
the nozzle body to eliminate potential leak paths for gas fuel within the nozzle
assembly.
FUEL NOZZLE MODIFICATION